The document discusses the history of hypertext conferences from 1987 to 2007 and the transition to web and semantic web conferences. It notes that early hypertext conferences in the late 1980s saw significant participation from technical and non-technical authors. Conference attendance declined in the late 1990s as the web conference series grew rapidly in popularity. The semantic web represents a rebirth of hypertext ideas but does not attract the original hypertext community.

2. “ As we may think” Vannevar Bush Atlantic Monthly July 1945

3. Ted Nelson and Doug Engelbart Everything is deeply intertwingled Augmenting human intellect

5. ECHT’90

6. Fountain et al “Microcosm: an open model for hypermedia with dynamic linking” Proceedings of ECHT’90

8. Microcosm Linkbases Link database Documents Note the direction of this arrow! Separable hyperstructure

9. Links in Microcosm source, destination, description source: object | concept | context Focus on associative linking Different linkbases for different users We generated links based on metadata description of documents in docuverse and “it all falls out”

14. Lessons learnt: Big is beautiful: the network is everything (tbl) Scruffy works: let the links fail to make it scale (tbl) But we lost (for a time) conceptual and contextual linking Creating good hypertext in the Web is ironically very hard Missing links – search engines fill the gap

17. The Proxy DLS DLS Agent client Link server Internet The DLS Agent is an HTTP proxy that inserts links on-the-fly by querying the link service

21. Artificial Intelligence

22. The Semantic Web Semantic Web LayerCake (Berners-Lee, 99;Swartz-Hendler, 2001)

23. The Semantic Web: A Web of Data

24. Person URI: http://id.ecs.soton.ac.uk/person/1650 Role URI: http://id.ecs.soton.ac.uk/role/1650 Person RDF: http://rdf.ecs.soton.ac.uk/person/1650 Role RDF: http://rdf.ecs.soton.ac.uk/role/1650 Internal Person RDF: http://intra.rdf.ecs.soton.ac.uk/person/1650 Internal Role RDF: http://intra.rdf.ecs.soton.ac.uk/role/1650 More information Everything is deeply intertwingled!

25. An Introduction

26. Technical Architecture - semantic store scalable to 60Bn triples WWW Semi-structured data Front End Unstructured data Structured data JXT (f) JXT merge (e) RDS (d) NPS (c) Ranked Searchable Segment (b) URLs (a) Natural Language Engineering Harvested Pages NUTCH

29. The Web Science Research Initiative Creating a Science of the Web November 2006 Directors: Wendy Hall, Nigel Shadbolt, Southampton Tim Berners-Lee, Daniel Weitzner, MIT